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Mark C. Baker

Mark C. Baker is Professor of Linguistics and Chair of the Department of Linguistics at Rutgers University and a member of the Center for Cognitive Science. He is the author of Incorporation: A Theory of Grammatical Function Changing (1988), The Polysynthesis Parameter (1996), and The Atoms of Language: The Mind's Hidden Rules of Grammar (2001), as well as of numerous articles in journals such as Linguistic Inquiry and Natural Language and Linguistic Theory.

Mark C. Baker book reviews

  • The Polysynthesis Parameter 3 out of 5

    The first book to read about polysynthesis

    By Maunus, Aug 31, 2007

    In this book Mark Baker presents a new hypothesis with implications for linguistic typology and the structural description of polysynthetic languages, he presents the observations that forms the... read more